School of Histories and Humanities: Recent submissions
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The Fallen Soldier as Fascist Exemplar: Military Cemeteries and Dead Heroes in Mussolini's Italy
(2022)This article aims to dissect the nature of exemplarity in Italian Fascism. The social and political structures that emerged in Fascist Italy were highly reliant on a sense of morality, largely because of the degree of ... -
Il fascismo, la Grande Guerra e i monumenti ai caduti
(2017)L’ossario di Redipuglia in Friuli raccoglie le salme di oltre centomila soldati italiani che caddero combattendo al fronte (Dogliani 1996; Fabi 2002; Fiore 2003; Nicoloso 2012, 94–7). È il più grande luogo di sepoltura ... -
Marcello Piacentini: A case of controversial heritage
(2018)As the most prominent architect and urban designer of Italy’s fascist regime, Marcello Piacentini (1881–1960) left an indelible mark on numerous cities across Italy. Nonetheless, his reception has been marred by controversy. ... -
Redefining peace: Fascist Italy and fallen soldiers of the First World War
(2022)Italy’s Fascist regime exploited the difficulties that arose from the transition to peace after the First World War. As a highly contested event, the war destabilised Italy’s liberal state and paved the way for Benito ... -
Teaching the Difficult Heritage of Italian Fascism
(2023)In recent years, the architectural legacy and so-called ‘difficult heritage’ of Fascist Italy has become a flourishing field of research. These topics have also begun to make their way into the undergraduate classroom. ... -
Architecture, Politics and the Sacred in Military Monuments of Fascist Italy
(Bloomsbury, 2020)Benito Mussolini’s Fascist regime in Italy served its political ends through architecture that was at once sacred and modern. This chapter explores that conjunction of religion and modernity through a group of ossuaries ... -
Taking Play Seriously: Children's Education and Nation-building in Modern China, 1897-1937
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, School of Histories and Humanities, 2025)China’s experience of foreign encroachment in the second half of the nineteenth century was what John Fitzgerald calls a wave of awakening among the intelligentsia. It was in this context that educational reform became ... -
Art and Material Culture as Instruments of Gendered Self-Fashioning in the Life of Isabel Farnesio (1692-1766)
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2024)This thesis takes as its central focus Isabel Farnesio, exploring the ways in which her engagement with art reflected and buttressed her construction of identity. Born Elisabetta Farnese, the Princess of Parma in 1692, and ... -
More than a man's part, Sir Charles Alexander Cameron : public analyst and medical officer of health for Dublin, 1862-1921
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2008)Sir Charles Alexander Cameron became Public Analyst for Dublin in 1862, and Medical Officer of Health for Dublin in 1874; he held both posts concurrently until his death in 1921 at the age of ninety. This thesis examines ... -
The life and work of Harry Clarke (1889-1931)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 1982)The aim of this thesis is to describe in detail the life, work and career of the artist, not only in terms of his outstanding talents as a stained glass artist and craftsman and as a book illustrator, but also as a vital ... -
Ille regit dictis animos : models of authority in Vergil's Aeneid
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2016)In this dissertation, I have aimed to develop a better understanding of authority itself and establish a framework for reading authority in Roman literature based on this understanding. I then applied this framework to the ... -
The political economy of classical Athens : a naval perspective
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2017)This dissertation endeavours to provide an analysis of the political economy of classical Athens from the perspective of the development of its navy. Traditionally, scholarship has viewed the economy of Athens as primitive, ... -
Indo-Irish nationalist interactions and the British Empire, 1880 - 1922
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2017)The primary aim of this thesis is to explore the interaction between the Irish and Indian advanced nationalist movements from 1880 until the establishment of Irish independence in 1922. The study delineates the complex web ... -
Old liberals, new politics : the Americans for Democratic Action and the transformation of American liberalism, 1947 - 1976
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The Dublin University Mission - Irish medical missionaries in Britain's empire in India, 1891 - 1929 : identity, impact and sustainability
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2016)This thesis traces the evolution of the Dublin University Mission (DUM)from initial foundation as a graduate brotherhood mission in Victorian Dublin, to one which established a sustainable female healthcare programme in ... -
French Anglicans : a clerical network in England and Ireland c.1640 - c.1685
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2016)This thesis reconstructs and analyses the lives of a number of men who left France for England and Ireland over the seventeenth century and became clergymen in the Church of England and Church of Ireland. Such clergymen ... -
The practical and theoretical application of three-dimensional imaging to the analysis of skeletal trauma
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2016)This research examined current trauma analysis protocols for archaeological and historical skeletal collections and aimed to develop a more transparent, reliable, and objective assessment protocol for analysing the timing ... -
Medeae Medea forem' : rehabilitating Ovid's Medea
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2016)This project concerns itself with the characterisation of Ovid's Medea, as she appears in the twin letters Heroides 6 and 12, and in Book 7 of the Metamorphoses. The thesis argues first that the Ovidian Medea can be read ... -
Speculators in conflict : the Adventurers and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1642 - 1660
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2016)This study reveals how the actions of an extraordinary group of skilled and innovative individuals, less than twenty in number, developed and maintained a stable system of state finance in highly challenging times. They ... -
The role of ceramics in Protopalatial East Crete, as observed at Priniatikos Pyrgos : a study in socio-economic interaction through design and exchange
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2017)This thesis is a critical assessment of the regional role of Priniatikos Pyrgos (PP) in Mirabello Bay and Central-East Crete during the Protopalatial period of the Minoan Bronze Age. The chronological range of this study ...
